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What does intra vires mean?

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  1. within the legal power or authority of a person or body
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In our view, on plain reading of the statute and regulation, and having regard to the purposes of the Act, section 4 of Regulation 798 is intra vires the Act.
Regulations well-established and generally intra vires.
In this respect, that's why you cannot have, at the federal level, a registry of people who are not married if you are thinking of adopting legislation in the field of marriage, because that would be intra vires.
The courts may review it to determine whether it is intra vires. Therefore, the exercise of municipal business powers is not immune from review.
On all these grounds, and others that need not be discussed, I am clearly of the opinion, having regard to the decisions in the aviation case and the radio case, that this proposed legislation is intra vires.

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